Welcome to the 1st Hour Hydrocarbon Polymer Resource Wiki

On this wiki, you can post the web resources that you find helpful for the following categories:

What is a Polymer?: General Information about Polymers

How are Polymers Formed?: Information about the Formation of Polymers

How does the Structure of a Polymer affect its Properties?: Branching and Crosslinking

Condensation Polymers and Builder Molecules with Functional Groups

Each post should take the following form:
Link to the resource. Description of resource. Description of why you found this resource helpful. First name and last initial.

What is a Polymer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer this website gives good information and tells you the properties. Amber M.
http://matse1.mse.uiuc.edu/polymers/ware.html this website is good for letting you know what materials have polymers in it. Amber M.
http://www.iupac.org/polyedu/page33/page33.html. This is a website. I find this useful because it decribes or tells what a polymer is and gives you some history about them.Jesus.G
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-polymers.htm. This is an article blah blah blah. I found this useful because its clear and gives good descriptions. Neil S.
http://www.polymerambassadors.org/Whatispolymer.pdf. is a web site that take you to document. i find this useful because it have good information also show a picture drawing. Fatuma A

How are Polymers Formed?

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_are_Polymers_formed this website gives you a good example of how polymers are formed. Shakina B

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-are-polymers-made This is a website. It tells you how polymers are formed and gives you examples of how they are formed. Jesus.G
Chemical of the week- Polymers. This site describes how different polymers are formed. This site is helpful because it describes how 9 different polymers are formed.(Annisa S.)

How does the Structure of a Polymer affect its Properties?

Condensation Polymers and Builder Molecules with Functional Groups